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I don’t like a single boy’s baby name - do I just go with DH’s favourite?

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CreamC · 09/09/2024 15:56

I am a week away from my due date and I’m getting concerned that there’s no boys’ name that I truly love. I could come up with a shortlist of say 5-8, but I’d be about 50-70% on them. I’ve done all the apps, I’ve scoured the top 1,000 names lists, I’ve even bought a book. I just think boys’ names are all a bit meh!

DH has one name he absolutely loves. To the exclusion of all others. It would be on my shortlist but if I’m honest I’m not totally in love with it.

Do I just acquiesce and go with that?

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DisforDarkChocolate · 09/09/2024 16:06

I'd wait until the baby was born.

So many people don't like any boys names, it's a bit depressing.

I think it’s deeply weird. Why wouldn’t you like a single one of the many thousands of names you might plausibly call a baby boy? Or is this kind of person the type to have been naming their baby girls since they were playing with dolls, and loves frilly, ‘pretty’ names, hence is baffled and bored by names that aren’t?

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CreamC · 09/09/2024 16:07

Yes, it’s definitely a boy. 😊

I said to DH at the weekend that we need (he needs) more of a shortlist, because what if he comes out and doesn’t look like the name DH loves?

His response was that that’s not a thing, a baby can’t look like a name, and if that happens it just means the parents didn’t like the original name enough 😂 So I have tried to get him to expand his list with the hope if we both had one at 70% it could grow on us but he just said it’s the only one he likes.

In fact he said when he has thought about the baby he uses this name. Which was quite sweet.

He is 100% on it and I suppose I am 70% so in the absence of anything else I need to go with it?

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Shortandsweet24 · 09/09/2024 16:07

Yes go with that.

CoodleMoodle · 09/09/2024 16:07

This is how I felt too OP. I was very sure on DD's name (DH liked it too so that was easy!), but with DS I had none that I really loved.

So he suggested a few boys names he liked, and we whittled it down to maybe three that I was OK with. DD (4 at the time) overheard us talking and said she liked X the best, and that was it! She announced she was going to have "baby brother X" to everyone and it just stuck. DH was thrilled because it was his favourite too!

DisforDarkChocolate · 09/09/2024 16:06

I'd wait until the baby was born.

So many people don't like any boys names, it's a bit depressing.

tiredmum35 · 09/09/2024 16:02

Yes, I would if it's on your shortlist anyway.

OhWell45 · 09/09/2024 16:02

What sort of names do you like? What's your favourite girls name? I wouldnt commit to a name untill you see him. You might look at him an think he's a (insert name). When my little brother (now 40) was born my parents took him to visit family and different people on different sides of the family suggested the same name for him. He just looked like a xxxx.

Cinai2 · 09/09/2024 16:01

Yes, I would in this case as it is on your shortlist and you don’t have anything you like better. Is there a cute nickname for it which you like/could start to love?

Dolliesdisasterousdayout · 09/09/2024 16:00

He loves it, you love none and don’t mind it so go for it (unless it’s Gary).

FuckThePoPo · 09/09/2024 15:58

If youre definitely having a boy I would, only because if you're just 'meh' then that is not an outright no and he really loves it

Savoretti · 09/09/2024 15:58

Yes
If he loves it and you don’t have anything you like more then of course